A course dedicated to Beyoncé arrives at Yale University.

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The course is named Beyoncé writes history: history, culture, theory and politics of the black radical tradition through music, and will examine Beyoncé’s work from her 2013 self-titled album through 2024′Cowboy Carter‘, as a lens for studying black history, intellectual thought, and performance.

Students will participate in screenings of the “Drunk In Love” singer’s visual albums, discussions of works about her from various scholars, the development of playlists connecting her discography to her musical predecessors and much more.

Addressing the Yale Daily NewsDaphne Brooks, professor of African American studies and music, noted the recent American elections as a great opportunity to recognize and study Beyoncé’s contributions to American culture.

“The number of breakthroughs and innovations she has made and the way she interweaves history and politics and her very specific engagements with black cultural life in her performance aesthetic and her use of her voice as a portal for thinking about history and politics – there is simply no one like her,” she says.

Numerous university courses dedicated to pop stars have emerged in recent years. Taylor Swift in particular has been the subject of much criticism, including one Taylor Swift’s psychology class at Arizona State Universitya course at Stanford University dissecting Swift’s “All Too Well (10 minute version)” And a course at UC Berkeley that explores the pop star’s commercial success – all of this was announced only last year.

Before that, in February 2022New York University’s Clive Davis Institute launched a course covering “Swift’s evolution as a creative musical entrepreneur, the legacy of pop and country songwriters, and discourses on youth and childhood , and racial politics in contemporary popular music.”

The following August, the University of Texas launched a course called Taylor Swift’s songbookwhich used “the songwriting of pop music icon Taylor Swift to introduce literary critical reading and research methods – basic skills for work in English literature and other humanities disciplines” .

Other artists who have benefited from university treatment include Kanye Westwhich was the subject of a course at Concordia University in Montreal in 2022. Title Kanye versus Ye: genius by design, The class looked at the rapper’s career – from his beginnings as a producer in Chicago to his rise to fame via albums like “College Dropout” and “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.”

And earlier this year, Stanford University offers online course on the music and culture of The grateful dead.

Other news from Beyoncé, the singer will bring her latest album “Cowboy Carter” at tthe NFL Christmas Day halftime show in Decemberas confirmed Netflix earlier this month.

She will perform in the middle of this year’s Christmas game between the Houston Texas and the Baltimore Ravens on December 25, in an event that will be streamed live on Netflix.